Sorry in advance for the #uspol #doom.
Q: How did this happen?
A: First, Reagan busted the unions and lowered taxes and stopped busting up monopolies.
Then Clinton got wooed by his rich pals, and did NAFTA, which further gutted the unions, and made the working class mad. His “third way” was actually the first way (*plutocracy*). He changed our left wing into a center wing, so we lost our balance and spiraled down. Centrism is conservatism, just slower, and wearing clown makeup.
Then Bush made endless war popular again. Our storytellers told us that real men are cruel. Even Superman got mean! Everyone on TV is mean. All our heroes are now ex-military family-man antiheroes with PTSD and a job to do who grimly double-tap anyone in their way.
Then Obama bailed out the banks, and surrendered to the insurance companies, and didn’t fix anything. We still have systemic racism and minority rule (electoral college, filibuster) and regulatory capture and accelerating income inequality and **global fucking warming**; all he did was stall.
Then VC-funded libertopian tech bros sold us all screens that let us all be mean to each other freely, directly, without shame, without consequences, mocking our neighbors for likes. Righteous indignation is fun! Social media is antisocial. We all broke the social contract together, for lulz.
Then Qanon and Trump and Tate and Peterson (and lefty woo peddlers too) all told us science is bad and compassion is weak and *greed is good* and selfishness (and self-care (cool tricks to tolerate oppression!)) is a virtue and it’s all the other guys’ fault and poof, here we are, back in tribe-vs-tribe propaganda wars, dehumanizing and othering and mocking and bullying, like primates do.
And that’s the end of the Age of Enlightenment!
Anyway, go vote if you can, while you can, maybe we can stall the inevitable for another few years with another centrist Democrat. But there’s gonna be mobs, and pogroms, and fiefdoms, more and more now, no matter who loses.
TLDR: it’s the plutocracy, stupid (mocking Clinton’s famous motto, for lulz, while greed burns the world )
So, you know how Facebook is a corporation with a lot of spread-out servers that talk to a centralized database and algorithm that controls and manages all your posts, opaquely, for profit.
And so is Xwitter. And so is LinkedIn. And so is TikTok.
And so is BlueSky. 😲
BlueSky's big claim is that they're "decentralized" with "no algorithm". And yeah, technically, ironically, everything's an algorithm, but I'm not well-actuallying that word. Their current default feed algorithm is not The Algorithm; it lets you see all the posts from all your friends and that's great. It also lets you block at will, and won't shove spam on your feed, or shadow-ban your friends' political posts. It's not evil (yet). It's fine.
But. It's not decentralized. #BlueSky is a centralized corporate app, running a theoretically-decentralized network protocol that currently has only one (1) active node on the network: BlueSky. The other minor members of the ATP network are just piggybacking on BlueSky's 13 million captive users for auth and reach.
It (allegedly?) uses #ATProtocol to pass messages between its edge nodes. But all its central features are still centralized, and the protocol allows "reach" to be centrally managed separately from "speech" (to enable centralized blocking, and goosing and filtering in various feeds), and the protocol isn't even fully implemented as designed.
For example, ATP allows for "DID"s for identity portability, so if you later want to switch to a hypothetical GreenSky competitor, you won't lose your followers and blocklist and post history.
But the actual BlueSky app does not implement DIDs. It's called "did-placeholder" on their github. It's a stub. It's TBD. It's not a feature, it's a feature request.
And guess who just bought a seat on BlueSky's board with a $15M Series A round? That's right, a crypto vulture named Blockchain Capital.
Their general partner Kinjal Shah -- whose cryptocurrency-fueled career has careened from Bitcoin to NFTs to DAOs to VC -- is now on the BlueSky board, and methinks the press release doth protest too much when it defensively claims, with just a pinky promise, "the Bluesky app and the AT Protocol do not use blockchains or cryptocurrency, and we will not hyperfinancialize the social experience (through tokens, crypto trading, NFTs, etc.)."
Go ahead and enjoy BlueSky. It's better than Facebook. It's easier than Mastodon. It's sassier than TikTok. It's not motherfucking Xitter. But it's not decentralized.
links:
https://www.jwz.org/blog/2024/10/bluesky-now-owned-by-crypto-grifters/
Hago mi #presentación con mis últimos textos:
¿Qué hacer ante próximas danas?
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/valencia/hacer-proximas-danas
¿Cómo enseñar Geografía e Historia con enfoque ecosocial?
https://eldiariodelaeducacion.com/como-ensenar-geografia-e-historia-desde-la-mirada-ecosocial/
La IA multiplicará por 1000 la basura electrónica entre 2020 y 2030 en el escenario con mayor crecimiento, generando por sí sola más residuos electrónicos que India
https://www.eldiario.es/sociedad/tecnologias-chatgpt-produciran-desechos-electronicos-india-2030_1_11770280.html
Ante la escalda bélica entre Rusia y Ucrania con el empuje de EEUU, la UE suma más leña al fuego, acercándonos un paso más a una guerra mundial abierta
En tiempos de intensa crisis ecosocial, necesitamos una forma de actuar diametralmente distinta al matonismo
El ecologismo social no puede ser una especie de conciencia verde de un capitalismo en crisis. Nuestras fuerzas deben orientarse a potenciar colectivamente la movilización y organización del conflicto social y a tejer amplias alianzas con otras luchas de base y de clase. Lo contrario nos mostraría como indistinguibles del capitalismo verde del gobierno o de los departamentos empresariales de responsabilidad social corporativa.
De Miriam García Torres y Arturo Martínez
https://www.elsaltodiario.com/opinion/no-solo-renovables-va-transicion-ecosocial
Fear is deeply entrenched in Jewish identity. It stems from millennia of persecution and pogroms, leading up to and including the slaughter of 6 million Jews in the Holocaust, which has created intergenerational trauma.
In Israel, this trauma is sustained and narrated in the public discourse in ways that aim to justify what we do to Palestinians, preserving it at the center of how we see ourselves and the world around us.
https://www.972mag.com/jewish-fears-just-palestinian-struggle/
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#Gaza #Palestine
Unrwa’s chief emergency officer Louise Wateridge spoke about the emergency conditions at an Unrwa school-turned-shelter in north Gaza, where over 100,000 displaced residents in north Gaza have arrived in recent weeks with little to no clothes, food or supplies in the wake of Israel’s recent offensive on the northern half of the strip, where it is widely believed civilians will be barred from returning to their homes.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y_e_4s90GVY
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#Gaza #Palestine
Today in "carbon capture still doesn't work" news.
Shell claimed millions in public subsidy and carbon credit income based on promises to capture emissions then just...didn't capture the emissions.
“No hay nada ¡Cagüen la puta!”
El 30 de enero de 2016 las conversaciones entre PSOE y Podemos para la formación de gobierno estaban en una fase incipiente. Los resultados de los comicios generales del 20 de diciembre anterior habían abierto la posibilidad de que un acuerdo entre ambos partidos desbancara al Partido Popular. El Ministerio del Interior en funciones exprimía la maquinaria de su brigada política para poder ofrecer a los medios afines información negativa de Podemos. El secretario de Estado de Seguridad escribió entonces al Gordo: “Aquellos de Podemos que tenían antecedentes, ¿pudiste confirmar algo? El comisario Enrique García Castaño le contesta que ”nada“. ”¡Cagüenlaputa!“, exclama Francisco Martínez.@albertcuesta M'acabo de desactivar el compte que em vaig crear per si les mosques a Bluesky, només llegir-te. Gràcies.
"El meu paper no és transformar el món ni l'home sinó, potser, el de ser útil, des del meu lloc, als pocs valors sense els quals un món no paga la pena viure'l" A. Camus
i pels que teniu fe:
"Déu no és la Veritat, la Veritat és Déu"
Gandhi
"Donar exemple no és la principal manera de influir sobre els altres; es la única manera" Albert Einstein
“Lluitarem contra el fort mentre siguem febles i contra nosaltres mateixos quan siguem forts” Lluís Maria Xirinacs